A compelling and original cultural history of shapeshifters. There is something about a shapeshifter―a person who can transform into an animal―that captures our imagination; that causes us to want...

From the land of the sagas, a collection of little-known, little tales from myth and lore—many available in English for the first time. This unique and enchanting book opens the door to a...

From a renowned scholar and translator, a "lively and colloquial" (Wall Street Journal) translation of Aesop's fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world...

Imagine that you have gone back in time 3000 years to the city of Ithaka to greet Odysseus, the sole survivor of a decade of adventures, shipwreck, and mayhem, on his long-awaited return home...

This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated "Dictionary of Classical Mythology" brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference...

Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek...

In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more...

Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of...

Esther Eidinow sets the published question tablets from the oracle at Dodona side by side with the binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, and explores what they can tell us about...

The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have...

A collection of important essays by a pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology“Brilliant.”—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand FacesAnanda K. Coomaraswamy...

Née des oeuvres incestueuses d'Œdipe et de Jocaste, Antigone bravera les ordres de Créon pour inhumer son frère, Polynice. Elle sera enterrée vive. Pamphlet contre la loi humaine et pour la loi...